Paul Goyette writes:
- So, grovelling through man pages, I figured out that I should do:
-
- 1. fdisk -c /usr/mdec/mbr sd0
- 2. cp /usr/mdec/boot /boot
- 3. installboot -v -o timeout=5 /dev/rsd0a /usr/mdec/bootxx_ffsv2
-
- Well, I tried to reboot the machine.
-
- As far as I can tell, step 1 worked because it didn't try to boot from
- floppy. And I'm pretty sure step 2 worked because it identified itself
- as bootxx_ffsv2. But step 3 apparently failed because it couldn't find
- /boot
-
- I don't understand this, since the file is obviously there when I do a
- ls -l /boot it tells me the file is 53564 bytes long.
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As I recall, the message is ``Can't open /boot.''
Ah, yes, this is confirmed as line 88 of
sys/arch/i386/stand/bootxx/boot1.c.
I was fighting MP/MPDEBUG fires at the time (after
upgrading from 1.6X to 1.6ZG) so haven't had the time to sort
out what's really happening..
Currently, I'm booting off an install floppy, when
that's required..
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